At Christmas, it is a good moment to reflect on what a remarkable story it is that the Virgin Mary tells God’s angel that she truly is a virgin, and that she has not yet been able to enjoy the pleasures of sexual intercourse at all.
Jesus, who is also titled the King of this world, thus broke the patriarchal order of inheritance of power. Could Christianity be described as one of the roots of feminism, even if this has never been a straightforward story within the Church?
Rather than fully embracing this potential, the Church Fathers worked tirelessly to keep the strongholds of power open only to men—that is, to non-disabled and non-queer men, though even heterosexual men have often been regarded as a threat to the ideal of priesthood.
There is no shortage of congregations in the world that eagerly wish to return under patriarchal rule by claiming that only a Man can serve as a priest. To them, one might simply read the Bible: the Word did not become a man; the Word became flesh.
Now, in the eyes of both East and West, Europe has been overtaken by what is described as “gayropa,” and all men are seen—if not as trans, then at least as weak—it may not be surprising that the United States and Russia appear finally to have found a common tone. At the core of power on both sides lies an interpretation of Christianity that seeks to defend patriarchy.
While reading the Bible can offer grounds for challenging patriarchy, it is also interesting to consider whether Jesus was truly one hundred percent biologically male, or rather physiologically an ordinary human being, whose sex characteristics develop uniformly during the earliest weeks of pregnancy and later differentiate in a more masculine or a more feminine direction—or in both directions.